September 15, 2008

Xoopit takes "Best Overall Award" at Yahoo! Open Hack Day 2008

This weekend Yahoo took a huge step forward in opening up it's services to the development community at their 2008 Open Hack event. Xoopit's own Jerry (not to be confused with Mr. Yang), got his hack ON this weekend and brought home Yahoo's "Best Overall Award" for hacking Xoopit directly into Yahoo's Mail Environment. Thanks for representin', Jerry. ;)

The weekend was a blast and there were a lot of really cool hacks including Tripit's sweet Travel Planner for Yahoo Mail (Tripit won the award for Best User Experience).

The Yahoo Mail team did a stellar job hosting and helping their developer community through lots of hands on support in their snazzy Yahoo Mail Lounge. They went out of their way to understand our vision and challenges around developing for the platform and as a third party developer, felt like Yahoo is working hard to create a great experience for us. Mark, Steph, Brian, Talia, Scott, Jason, John, Erik, and the crew, congratulations for being first to market with your developer program for Open Mail!!!

Overall, we believe that the Yahoo's vision for transforming Yahoo into an open platform for next generation applications is awesome. Yahoo has a huge number of properties with great content, so it's going to be really interesting to see what happens over the next 18 months as these new services begin to take root.

Comments

What stupid things you are doing..? are you working there..? I requested more than 5 times for invite code..every time i got the same message..we will send you the invite code soon...When will you send..can you send it by 5008 or 10008...What is the invite code..Again you are asking that refer to your friend..?

What stupid things you are doing..? are you working there..? I requested more than 5 times for invite code..every time i got the same message..we will send you the invite code soon...When will you send..can you send it by 5008 or 10008...What is the invite code..Again you are asking that refer to your friend..?

Your product sounded interesting, so I decided to try it. After installing, I was astounded to observe your plug requesting the access codes to my email account. Nevertheless, I figured, perhaps, if there were some assurances of privacy and limitations on use in your click-through contract.

I saw none. What is to prevent you from misusing information in your users' emails? This is sufficiently disturbing that I am tempted to point this out to prospective users in a publicly visible posting. Is there any reason I should not? Am I mistaken about your promises/policies.

Please respond. On the surface, this seems as if there is an egregious attempt to breach security.

Xoopit is a venture funded company by Accel Ventures & Foundation Capital with the mission to help users discover, organize, and share their personal information. As a web service looking to provide utility value to users, we are committed that your data is your data and that it stays that way. You can be sure that there are no attempts here to breach your security. We are also in the process of updating our privacy policy this month so that you will see much more direct language this effect.

If you have any additional specific questions around how we store and keep your data private, please do not hesitate to contact me at bijan@xoopit.com. We would like to hear from you and take your issues into immediate consideration.

there is no place on this site to give feedback on the product, so ill leave my comment here even though this is the blog. i love xoopit for gmail but there is a conflict with xoopit when i activate certain labs features in gmail, particularly when i move the chat to the right side. thanks!

You people are changing things with the enthousisem of your age but without the prudence of an oldtimer
I do not know anything more of computers than to send an email and click on Google.I am near 87 and will not try to understand more than that.Please take that into account,there must be more of my catagorie on the web.But keep hacking,that is how we progress.